Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Biography:
"Representative and a Senator from California and a Vice President and 37th President of the United States; born in Yorba Linda, Orange County, Calif., January 9, 1913; attended the public schools; graduated from Whittier (Calif.) College in 1934 and Duke University Law School, Durham, N.C., in 1937; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Whittier, Calif.; attorney in Office of Emergency Management, Washington, D.C., January 1942 to August 1942; during the Second World War served in the United States Navy from August 1942 to January 1946 and was discharged as a lieutenant commander; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congresses and served from January 3, 1947, until his resignation November 30, 1950; elected to the Senate for the term commencing January 3, 1951; subsequently appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sheridan Downey and served from December 1, 1950, until his resignation January 1, 1953, to become Vice President; elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket with Dwight Eisenhower on November 4, 1952, for the term beginning January 20, 1953; reelected Vice President of the United States in 1956, and served from January 20, 1953, until January 20, 1961; unsuccessful Republican nominee for President of the United States in 1960; resumed the practice of law in Los Angeles and New York; unsuccessful Republican nominee for Governor of California in 1962; elected President of the United States in 1968 and inaugurated January 20, 1969; reelected in 1972, and inaugurated January 20, 1973; resigned August 9, 1974, during impeachment proceedings against him in the House Judiciary Committee arising from matters surrounding the 'Watergate' affair; accepted pardon from President Gerald R. Ford, September 8, 1974; was a resident of New York City, and later Park Ridge, N.J., until his death in New York City, April 22, 1994; interment on the grounds of the Richard Nixon Library, Yorba Linda, Calif."--Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library. (Digital Library of Georgia)
- --Circle the wagons! / Baldy, [1972 Aug. 16]. (Editorial cartoons)
- --Help!-- Police!-- There's a PTA meeting going on outside in the hallway!-- / Baldy, [ca. 1971]. (Editorial cartoons)
- --Here he comes-- / Baldy, [ca. 1970] (Editorial cartoons)
- --I'll just squeeze in here among old friends, if you don't mind! / Baldy, [1968]. (Editorial cartoons)
- --Oopsie! / Baldy, [ca. 1969]. (Editorial cartoons)
- --Ought to be enough around here to run a half a dozen campaigns / Baldy, [1968] (Editorial cartoons)
- --Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated! / Baldy, [1969 Sept. 3]. (Editorial cartoons)
- --Warrenburger? That's not what we ordered! / Baldy, [1969 Oct. 31]. (Editorial cartoons)
- --We can still get a few votes, dragging him around / Baldy, [ca. 1958]. (Editorial cartoons)
- Barbara C. Jordan Archives (Portal to Texas History)
- Consent of the Governed: Profit or Loss (Speeches (documents))
- [Letter from Ben W. Heineman to Richard M. Nixon, December 6, 1968] (Letters (correspondence))
- [Remarks by Barbara Jordan at AFL-CIO Convention, October 19, 1973] (Speeches (documents))
- [Remarks by Barbara Jordan at AFL-CIO Convention, October 19, 1973] (Speeches (documents))
- [Remarks by Sherman Fricks and Barbara Jordan at the Texas AFL-CIO Convention, March 11, 1974] (Speeches (documents))
- Remarks of Representative Barbara Jordan, National Convention Association of Broadcasters (Speeches (documents))
- Civil Rights-- Eisenhower & the Eisenhower Administration (Dwight D. Eisenhower Library)
- Freedom summer digital collection (Wisconsin Historical Society)
- CORE--Mississippi Free Press - Newspaper, 1964 Feb. 8-Aug. 1 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 69) (Newsletters)
- Lynd--Printed material, February 1963-October 1965 &undated (Staughton and Alice Lynd papers 1938-2008; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 395, Box 5, Folder 1) (Press releases)
- Lynd--Printed material, February 1963-October 1965 &undated (Staughton and Alice Lynd papers 1938-2008; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 395, Box 5, Folder 2) (Press releases)
- Lynd--Printed material, February 1963-October 1965 &undated (Staughton and Alice Lynd papers 1938-2008; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 395, Box 5, Folder 3) (Press releases)
- MFDP--General papers, 1965-1971, part 2 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 788, Reel 2, Segment 2, Part 2) (Reports)
- Montgomery--Civil rights movement reports and publications (Lucile Montgomery papers, 1963-1967; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 44, Reel 1, Segment 2) (Reports)
- Montgomery--Freedom Democratic Clubs (Lucile Montgomery papers, 1963-1967; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 44, Reel 1, Segment 5) (Reports)
- Moore--Correspondence, 1968 (Amzie Moore papers, 1941-1970; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 551, Box 1 Folder 8) (Correspondence)
- Walker--SNCC-COFO essays, 1964-1965 (Samuel Walker papers, 1964-1966; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 655, Box 1, Folder 3) (Reports)
- Zinn --Mississippi Summer Project, 1964 (Howard Zinn Papers, 1956-1994; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 588, Box 2, Folder 6) (Correspondence)
- James O. Eastland Collection Photographs (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
- John J. Herrera Papers (University of North Texas. Libraries)
- Congressional Record, Volume 118, Number 61, April 19, 1972 (Journals (periodicals))
- [Draft of article by John J. Herrera - 1956-10-22] (Texts)
- [Letter from Barbara Jordan to John J. Herrera - 1974-01-23] (Letters (correspondence))
- [Letter from Bob Casey - 1974] (Letters (correspondence))
- [Letter from Bob Eckhardt to John J. Herrera - 1974-01-31] (Letters (correspondence))
- [Letter from J. B. Casas to John J. Herrera - 1962-11-08] (Letters (correspondence))
- [Letter from John Tower to John J. Herrera - 1974-01-30] (Letters (correspondence))
- [Letter from Lloyd Bentsen to John J. Herrera - 1974-02-08] (Letters (correspondence))
- [Telegram and articles from Danny Olivas to Pete Tijerina - 1956-10-23] (Texts)
- Tijerina denies LULAC 'passed word' on Nixon (Clippings (information artifacts))
- March on Milwaukee: Civil Rights History Project (Golda Meir Library (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries))
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement (Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill))
- Southern school news (University of Georgia Libraries)
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
- Georgia Democratic Party splits over national loyalties to George Wallace and Hubert Humphrey. (news)
- NIXON BLAMES FAUBUS FOR LITTLE ROCK VIOLENCE DUE TO CALL OUT OF NATIONAL GUARD (NO DATE) (news)
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Richard Nixon speaking about civil rights in Augusta, Georgia, 1965 August 27 (News)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph D. Abernathy meeting with vice president Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, Washington, D.C., 1957 June 13 (News)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of the funeral procession of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from Ebenezer Baptist Church to Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 April 9 (News)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of the funeral procession of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from Ebenezer Baptist Church to Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 April 9 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of United States president Richard M. Nixon speaking about the Vietnam War while in town to dedicate the Ocean Science Center of the Atlantic on Skidaway Island, Savannah, Georgia, 1970 October 7 (News)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of United States president Richard M. Nixon speaking about the Vietnam War while in town to dedicate the Ocean Science Center of the Atlantic on Skidaway Island, Savannah, Georgia, 1970 October 7 (Moving images)